Lace Flounce
1720–40
Brussels, Flanders (present day Belgium)
Flanders
Wide edgings or flounces made of lace ornamented secular clothing, religious dress, and furniture. This length of lace might have adorned a wealthy woman’s skirt hem or dressing table. Such a large piece of lace would have been the work of many women, with each creating a part of the whole that was then skillfully and invisibly assembled.
Linen, bobbin part-lace of a type known as "Brussels" with a plaited bar ground